Billboard #1 Hits: #639: ‘Here I Go Again’- Whitesnake. October 10, 1987. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘Here I Go Again’- Whitesnake
- Record Company- Geffen
- Genre: Rock
- Written by David Coverdale and Bernie Marsden
- Time: 5:09
- b-side: ‘Bloody Luxury”
- Album- Saints & Sinners
- Grade: C-
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #9 in UK Singles Chart. #1 in Canada.
Recorded in 1982 by Whitesnake- and it wasn’t a hit until it was re-recorded 5 years later. Hard to believe this was a #1 hit. One of the worst concerts I’ve ever been to- the girl I was seeing at the time wanted to see them so- I bought the tickets and we went- it was bloody awful. Certainly not the worst concert I’ve been to that honor goes to another concert I didn’t want to go to- Kenny G- [Michael Bolton’s younger brother] a couple years later. At least it was G by himself and not on the infamous ‘Brothers’ Tour he did with Michael.
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Which one came first? The boring rock version or the radio “edit” one, with the different drum sequence and background singers?
Yep, this is one of the worst, most mediocre #1 hits of the 20th century. Is Kenny G really Michael Bolton’s brother?
I can think of plenty of #1 songs of the 20th Century that are worse than this one. And no, Kenny G is not related to Michael Bolton. Hans just hates them both, so lumps them together.
I might put that infamous Starship “We Built this City” and the super-duo superdud “Black and White” a bit below this one among #1 hits… but to me, it’s right up there. But obviously they had a whole lot of fans who felt differently!
In looking over the #1 hits of 1987- there were 29- there may be ten that I’d ever want to hear again. Overall a sorry lot.
But at least the song had good insightful lyrics – “Like a drifter I was born to walk alone.” 🤮